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I have been spending a lot of time reading through various people’s experiences dealing with passive aggressive and other personality disorder people in their lives. The website is at: http://outofthefog.net/forum/ and it is a great resource for coping with people with personality disorders. After reading the last couple weeks, I really do think the ogre in addition to his passive aggressiveness does show signs of narcissistic personality disorder. I am bolding much like I did with the passive aggressive list which traits he has. If you go through this blog from the start you will find a snippet written that involves each and every one of those traits.

Narcissistic traits via Wikipedia:

An obvious self-focus in interpersonal exchangesProblems in sustaining satisfying relationshipsA lack of psychological awareness (see insight in psychology and psychiatry, egosyntonic)Difficulty with empathyProblems distinguishing the self from others (see narcissism and boundaries)Hypersensitivity to any insults or imagined insults (see criticism and narcissists, narcissistic rage and narcissistic injury)Vulnerability to shame rather than guiltHaughty body languageFlattery towards people who admire and affirm them (narcissistic supply)Detesting those who do not admire them (narcissistic abuse)Using other people without considering the cost of doing soPretending to be more important than they really areBragging (subtly but persistently) and exaggerating their achievementsClaiming to be an “expert” at many thingsInability to view the world from the perspective of other peopleDenial of remorse and gratitude

Hotchkiss’ seven deadly sins of narcissism

1. Shamelessness: Shame is the feeling that lurks beneath all unhealthy narcissism, and the inability to process shame in healthy ways.
2. Magical thinking: Narcissists see themselves as perfect, using distortion and illusion known as magical thinking. They also use projection to dump shame onto others.
3. Arrogance: A narcissist who is feeling deflated may reinflate by diminishing, debasing, or degrading somebody else.

4. Envy: A narcissist may secure a sense of superiority in the face of another person’s ability by using contempt to minimize the other person.
5. Entitlement: Narcissists hold unreasonable expectations of particularly favorable treatment and automatic compliance because they consider themselves special. Failure to comply is considered an attack on their superiority, and the perpetrator is considered an “awkward” or “difficult” person. Defiance of their will is a narcissistic injury that can trigger narcissistic rage.
6. Exploitation: Can take many forms but always involves the exploitation of others without regard for their feelings or interests. Often the other is in a subservient position where resistance would be difficult or even impossible. Sometimes the subservience is not so much real as assumed.
7. Bad boundaries: Narcissists do not recognize that they have boundaries and that others are separate and are not extensions of themselves. Others either exist to meet their needs or may as well not exist at all. Those who provide narcissistic supply to the narcissist are treated as if they are part of the narcissist and are expected to live up to those expectations. In the mind of a narcissist there is no boundary between self and other.